Author Archives: Simon Roses

Book Review: PoC||GTFO

Posted on September 27, 2017 by Simon Roses

Yes, I’m back to blogging and doing a book review. I guess better late than never 🙂 This time I’m reviewing the holy hacker book: International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The Fuck Out (PoC||GTFO, ISBN-13: 978-1-59327-880-9). The book sums … Continue reading →

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Mirai DDoS Botnet: Source Code & Binary Analysis

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Simon Roses

Mirai is a DDoS botnet that has gained a lot of media attraction lately due to high impact attacks such as on journalist Brian Krebs and also for one of the biggest DDoS attacks on Internet against ISP Dyn, cutting … Continue reading →

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Fristileaks 1.3 CTF Writeup

Posted on December 18, 2015 by Simon Roses

This vulnerable VM is a fun and simple CTF that can be downloaded from the awesome portal VulnHub. Note: For vmware you may need to set the MAC address to 08:00:27:A5:A6:76 to get it working. I did, see Fig 1. … Continue reading →

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